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Oct 27, 2021 4:39 PM UTC
Question

Adobe Fonts are showing as icon in Apple apps

I'm one of the lucky ones with the new MacBook Pros, but Adobe Fonts has been almost unusable so far in Keynote on Mac OS 12.

 

1. Most Adobe Fonts are simply not showing up in the font menu, even though they are activated

 

2. Some fonts that are activated have extremely compressed character spacing, and adjusting the character spacing in Keynote does not solve anything. This only happens with weights that are marked Regular, all other weights seem to be ok.

 

Hope these teething issues are sorted out soon! Keynote is an essential tool for some of us!

 

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MykoWu
Participant
Nov 17, 2021 12:45 AM UTC

I'm having the same problem too, i'm running macOS 12 on mac mini m1 (2020).  My fonts are all squished and have the Question mark box in keynote but works fine in illustrator. Powerpoint version of mac is weird too, but I tried it on a windows laptop and things are fine. 

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Harshika Verma
Community Manager
Community Manager
Dec 7, 2021 2:32 PM UTC

Hi All,

 

We are sorry for the trouble. We are tracking the similar issue here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-fonts-discussions/adobe-fonts-not-displaying-correctly-in-apple-apps/td-p/12485753

 

We would request you to please join the discussion for future updates on this issue. 

 

Please check out the correct answer of the post for updates on the issue.

 

We're sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

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Known Participant
Oct 30, 2021 9:40 AM UTC

Here's the fix. It's a font cache problem.

1. Open Terminal

2. Type:  sudo atsutil databases -remove

3. Enter your system password and hit return.

4. Type:  atsutil server -shutdown

5. Type:  atsutil server -ping

6. Now it is important that you restart you Mac, or the cache issue will reappear.

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Daniel Heitkamm
Participant
Oct 30, 2021 11:41 AM UTC

I followed these steps and it helped to solve the issue! Thank you so much

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Daniel Heitkamm
Participant
Oct 30, 2021 11:57 AM UTC

… unfortunately it only seemed to work. Now it´s messed up again 😞 sorry 

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Known Participant
Oct 29, 2021 12:02 PM UTC

Yep, me too! Something has gone seriously wrong with Adobe Fonts in all Apple apps (Keynote, Pages...). So don't upgrade if you're doing important client presentations with Adobe Fonts in Keynote. 😞

 

I hate to say this but the fallback is to use PowerPoint - Addobe Fonts still seem to work fine there. Hrrmmph... 

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pl_studioAuthor
Participant
Oct 29, 2021 1:54 PM UTC

Following up on this:

 

I followed the steps here: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

 

and I think it's solved!? (at least for me)

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Known Participant
Oct 29, 2021 4:24 PM UTC

Yeah, I tried a full cleanup and a reinstall too, but unfortunately I didn't work for me.

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